Music: Venetian-Blind Music

To the Manhattan music critic heading for the office from the
Metropolitan Opera, it sometimes seems that everything necessary or
desirable about opera was said long ago. As an antidote to that tired
feeling, Free-Lance writer Sylvia Wright now suggests (in the current
issue of High Fidelity) a broad new approach to opera. Author Wright,
founder of what may come to be known as the Vacuum School of Criticism,
reports that every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her
Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only
to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with...